but i went back and looked at the "washington post" for january 2nd, 2009. i looked at words "crisis." there were about seven or eight mentions of that word. most of them problems in the financial sector and undealt with problems in russia. all those problems now don't merit the word "crisis" today. and that's an indication of where we have come on the pressure on our financial markets gobblely and here in this country. -- globally and here in this country. we are not facing the prospect of a meltdown in our financial system. >> but in the past we've always been able to grow ourselves out of our fiscal crisis. not because congress has stepped up to the bar and cut spending or raised taxes all of it's been growth. in the 90's a technological revolution. in the first decade there was this phony leverage thing. where is the growth coming from in the next decade? >> i don't mean to be a cassandra here my rosy predictions from my two book end friend, but let's get one thing. nobody runs for things would have been really worse if we hadn't been in office. that is